The Venom Foundation has kicked off a targeted grant program designed to persuade active Web3 teams to migrate or deeply integrate with its high-performance blockchain, offering staged funding that starts at $10,000 and can grow to $100,000 for projects that hit agreed milestones. The initiative, dubbed Venom Grants, aims squarely at DeFi, NFT, GameFi, SocialFi, AI-on-chain, tokenized real-world assets and enterprise infrastructure projects that say they are being squeezed by high fees, congested networks, or limited scalability on chains such as Ethereum, Solana and Binance Smart Chain.
Venom’s new funding model is straightforward and results-driven. The first tranche, an initial $10,000, is intended to cover the technical heavy lifting: smart contract porting, adaptation to the TVM execution environment, bridge and atomic-swap tests, architecture optimization and a pilot migration. Teams that successfully complete those Stage 1 milestones and demonstrate user growth, product-market fit and measurable contributions to the Venom ecosystem become eligible for Stage 2, a scaling investment that can push total funding up to $100,000.
The pitch from Venom is built on performance numbers that the foundation has been promoting for months. Venom’s technical literature and public statements put the network’s throughput well into the six figures and describe sub-second finality, minimal fees measured in hundreds of nanoVENOM per operation and enterprise-grade uptime. Independent reporting and the foundation’s own materials reference closed-network stress tests that reached as high as 150,000 transactions per second and public claims of 100,000+ TPS, figures Venom says will make it a serious alternative for projects that can’t scale on legacy chains.
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A notable component of the program is the foundation’s emphasis on custody-free cross-chain flows. Venom has already integrated ChainConnect to enable intermediary-free atomic swaps between TVM-compatible networks and EVM chains, a mechanism the foundation says removes the partial-execution and custodial risks that can plague other interchain solutions. Where some bridge models rely on multisig custodians or validator-based consensus, Venom’s approach claims an all-or-nothing execution model to ensure funds either complete a transfer or automatically revert.
Winners of the grants get more than cash. Venom is offering access to a broad user base through the Venom Quests platform, which the foundation says reaches more than 1.5 million wallets, as well as hands-on technical support from a TVM specialist team and one-on-one consultations with the protocol’s leadership. For teams, that translates into a practical migration roadmap plus marketing and user-onboarding channels that could accelerate adoption.
The application bar is not low. Venom asks for an active, genuine social media audience (accounts are screened for bot activity), a minimum of 1,000 monthly active users, a clear financial model and evidence of product-market fit, plus a detailed technical migration plan, timelines and team bios. Applications are accepted by email to partners@venom.network with the subject line “Grant Application – Migration – [Project Name],” and applicants should include links, contact details and a brief one- to two-paragraph overview of current metrics and their intended integration plan.
Christopher Louis Tsu, Venom’s chief executive, framed the grants in broader terms, arguing that “Blockchain performance is not just a technical metric – it is the foundation for real financial infrastructure. Projects that come to Venom gain not only speed and low fees, but infrastructure trusted by central banks and institutional investors.”
The move follows a pattern. Venom has previously seeded developer funds and labs to bring projects onto its stack, and the new Venom Grants program looks like an escalation of those efforts, trading upfront technical and financial support for deeper ecosystem commitments. For teams weighing migration costs against long-term scalability, the new program offers a clear incentive: money up front, engineering support and the promise of a low-fee, high-throughput home for apps that aim to serve millions.
For developers interested in applying, the foundation’s website provides further details and background on the network’s capabilities and past funding rounds. The Venom Foundation is an Abu Dhabi-based fintech company focused on delivering scalable and compliant blockchain infrastructure for large-scale financial and enterprise use cases.
